Hypocritical MP's Rule.

This from Truth-Out: [Greg Palast]

“I can't take it anymore. All week, I've watched Nelson Mandela reduced to a Barbie doll. From Fox News to the Bush family, the politicians and media mavens who body-blocked the anti-Apartheid Movement and were happy to keep Mandela behind bars, now get to dress his image up in any silly outfit they choose”.

Nelson Mandela.

Now Truth-Out was talking about the US, but we here in New Zealand via our government was even more hypocritical, in fact the sickening words of Don McKinnon and Jim Bolger were disgustingly and plainly hypocritical and false and the childlike behaviour of ‘I want to be liked’ John Key was so puppet like that it was truly embarrassingly demeaning to Nelson Mandela and our own anti-Apartheid movement. Our anti-Apartheid movement had guts and a sense of justice as they grew from a few hundred into many hundreds of thousands. Whereas Bolger and McKinnon along with Muldoon supported South African Apartheid in very practical terms…they were gutless and spineless. Truth-out went on to say:

Poor Nelson Mandela; When he's not a doll, he's a statue. He joins Martin Luther King as another bronzed monument whose use is to tell us that apartheid is now "defeated" - to quote the ridiculous headline in the Times.

It's more nauseating than hypocrisy and ignorance. The Mandela Barbie is dressed to serve a new version of racism, Apartheid 2.0, worsening both in South Africa - and in the USA.

The ruling class creates commemorative dolls and statues of revolutionary leaders as a way to tell us their cause is won, so go home. For example, just months ago, the US Supreme Court overturned the Voting Rights Act, Dr. King's greatest accomplishment, on the specious claim that, "Blatantly discriminatory evasions are rare," and Jim Crow voting practices are now "eradicated."

Here in New Zealand South African style Apartheid still exists in the various right-wing political movements that abounded, while small in number they have corrosive fingers deeply embedded in the National Party and via Winston Peters  New Zealand First, remember he too supported Muldoon, McKinnon and Bolger in treating Nelson Mandela. Other strange groupings such as ‘The One NZ Foundation’, the almost defunct ACT party, the ‘One Law for all’

While I believe strongly that NZ shouldn’t move to ban such movements because racists need an outlet to expose their anger publicly so that their twisted version of history can be countered. Racism in various countries around the world often has covert support from National Governments and state governments, the US and Australia standout amongst our so-called allies for this practice. Truth-Out went on:

The ruling class creates commemorative dolls and statues of revolutionary leaders as a way to tell us their cause is won, so go home. For example, just months ago, the US Supreme Court overturned the Voting Rights Act, Dr. King's greatest accomplishment, on the specious claim that, "Blatantly discriminatory evasions are rare," and Jim Crow voting practices are now "eradicated."

"Eradicated?" On what planet? The latest move by Florida Republicans to purge 181,000 voters of color - like the stench from the shantytowns of Cape Town - makes clear that neither Jim Crow nor Apartheid has been defeated. They're just in temporary retreat.

Nevertheless, our betters in the USA and Europe have declared that King slew segregation, Mandela defeated apartheid; and therefore, the new victims of racial injustice should just shut the f$#! Up and stop whining.

I don’t believe that the desire for government supported Apartheid would  be supported by a majority here in NZ and that the majority supports the view that the Treaty of Waitangi is a conciliation approach designed by us and is in fact I believe modeled on the same principles of Nelson Mandela's reconciliation pathway.